Gertrud von Le Fort (October 11, 1876, Minden - November 1, 1971, Oberstdorf, Bavaria) was a German writer of novels, poems, and essays. She came from a Protestant background, but converted to Catholicism in 1926. Most of Gertrud's writings come after this conversion. In 1952 she won the Gottfried-Keller-Preis award.
"Denn die Welt kann zwar durch die Macht des Mannes bewegt werden, gesegnet aber im eigentlichen Sinne des Wortes wird sie immer nur im Zeichen der Frau."
Helena M. Tomko : Sacramental realism, Gertrud von le Fort and German Catholic literature in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich (1924-46) read online at google-books